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Contributions to paediatric medicine

How do we measure the quality of life facing children with long-term or chronic health problems? Christine Eiser looks at the progress in this article, origanally given as the 1997 C.S. Myers Lecture.

IMPROVEMENTS in medical care
mean that survival rates in children
with a wide range of chronic conditions
have improved significantly within
the relatively recent past. It is now possible
to treat children with chronic or
life-threatening conditions in a way that
was not possible even 20 years ago. The
result is that survival among children
with serious and life-threatening conditions
is significantly improved.